Resurrection Empire

In the spacious and bright classroom, a group of young men and women dressed in formal attire sat upright in comfortable soft chairs.

Each person had a large desk.

In front of each desk, there was a one-meter square three-dimensional projection screen.

On the projection, a highly realistic industrial assembly line model was running.

This model was detailed and lifelike, almost like the real thing, and could be manipulated with gestures to zoom in, zoom out, or move position.

On the podium, an elderly lecturer was explaining the various functional modules in the model in detail.

The students below listened very attentively.

The atmosphere here was about seventy to eighty percent similar to Ren Zhong's high school days in his memory.

Simulation courses could actually be conducted online, but in the field of metallurgy, there were still many on-site experimental courses.

Therefore, the newly launched metallurgy advanced training class at Liao Yuan Academy was taught offline, creating a better learning environment.

Humans are always social creatures.

Unless one is an extremely self-disciplined genius, most people need to be in a good learning environment to achieve the best efficiency.

Ren Zhong chose this advanced training class, which had a very intense teaching schedule, with classes during the day from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with only a one-hour break at noon.

At 10 p.m., after the students entered the hibernation space, there were also seven hours of theoretical courses.

The total learning time each day reached an outrageous 16 hours, almost treating citizens like savages.

The total learning time for each training class was 60 days.

Once students completed their studies and passed the assessments, they could receive a Fourth Level Mining Engineer Certificate issued by Liao Yuan Science College, recognized by the Source Star Business Association, and could directly take up mid-level management positions in mines.

It seems simple, just a month's study to get a Fourth Level Certificate, but in fact, it's not easy.

Just speaking of Liao Yuan Academy, since launching the advanced training class business six months ago, there have been an average of 20 classes per session, each with 20 people.

A total of 1200 people completed their studies, with over 600 students in total.

Yet, so far, fewer than 150 have successfully passed the assessment and obtained a Fourth Level Certificate.

The average passing rate for the exam was only 12.5%.

There were many students who didn't pass even after retaking the course once or twice.

And in the foreseeable future, there will be people retaking it three times or more.

Considering the terrifying tuition fee of up to two million points per session, some retake experts have spent millions of points here without seeing any results.

Although a mere two million points were not much for Ren Zhong now, it was only because he could turn the stock market into his ATM and had heavily exploited Yang Bingzhong.

In the early days of his stock trading career, he had to scrape together funds from various sources and finance wherever he could.

Otherwise, even if he were invincible in stock trading, it would still take him at least half a year to trade enough capital to disregard two million as a number.

Take Ju Qingmeng as an example, even though she was the manager of the Starfire Town Military Weapon Store, she didn't engage much in gray income, maybe because she didn't want to, or because she knew someone was watching her and didn't dare.

Her annual salary was only five to six hundred thousand, and she also took some equipment modification orders from professional teams in Starfire Town, earning less than five million in three years, which she painstakingly accumulated aside from giving her parents pocket money, and mostly invested back into her own small laboratory.

Her savings were pitifully low, embarrassingly so when mentioned, amounting to just over ten thousand, which was lent out by someone and still not returned.

In short, citizens who could afford this training class tuition or even had the resources to retake courses despite not passing were usually wealthy or noble.

These people were supposed to live privileged lives, but they came here to endure the hardships of studying for other reasons.

The root of the issue traces back to Purple Crystal Mining itself.

As one of the nine major companies dominating the Source Star industries in mining and metallurgy, Purple Crystal Mining had simultaneously launched nearly a thousand super-large mines worldwide, similar in scale to the Chenhui Mine.

Despite having a talent reserve early on, Purple Crystal Mining started training talents in metallurgy worldwide six months in advance to meet the explosive demand for personnel.

To entice citizens accustomed to a comfortable life to willingly endure the hardship of studying, Purple Crystal Mining leveraged the privileges of the nine major companies to secure impartiality from the Business Association, offering significant Citizen Credit Points to anyone who obtained a Fourth Level or higher certificate, regardless of whether they eventually joined Purple Crystal Mining in a metallurgy or mining career.